[NBLUG/talk] Re: Enlightenment

Kyle Rankin kyle at nblug.org
Fri Jul 30 14:22:26 PDT 2004


On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:17:48PM -0700, A'fish'ionado wrote:
> > ~   If you're looking to run Enlightenment on SuSE,
> the > easy way to do
> > it is to have the Professional edition
> > (Enlightenment is included in
> > the distro),
> 
> I have SuSE 9.0 Professional ... But I'm in the dorm
> room at Berkeley with my laptop, and my SuSE CDs are
> at home in Santa Rosa. :-P
> 
> I'm not sure whether I'm ready to replace KDE with
> Enlightenment on the desktop at home, but on this
> laptop with 256Mb, I'd say it's a step up over WM. :-)
> (Yes, KDE runs on it, but swaps a little more often
> than I like once I start any serious multitasking.)
> Minimizing windows in WM is a little clunky IMHO, and
> having a list of open windows appear when I press
> alt-tab is great. And, I just love making my windows'
> title bars see-through. :-)
> 
> I installed the OS X and lcars themes, and found them
> awkward to use, but I'm keeping them handy for when I
> run into Mac-heads or Trekkies, hehehe. (I'm now using
> the "Blue Steel" theme.)
> 
> Two issues that Google hasn't resolved for me:
> 
> I want Gkrellm to start when I open Enlightenment. I
> absolutely can't find a startup script to put it in.
> I've been eyeing some of the tweaks to add session
> management to Enlightenment (virtually the only
> feature I miss from WM), though, and I may eventually
> use that instead.

Enlightenment has absolutely the best session management of any window
manager, and it is the reason I continue to use it. Right click on the
titlebar of your window (or in the case of gkrellm alt-rightclick somewhere
in the window) and then select "Remember..." This will show you all the
window memory settings you can choose. It's fine-grained so you can
remember as much or as little about your window as you want, and it will
remember next time it starts. One of the options is also to remember to
start the application at next startup.

-- 
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users Group
http://nblug.org
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kyle at nblug.org

> 
> After oogling all the Enlightenment screenshots, I now
> want to replace Xterm with Eterm. :-) Eterm depends on
> libfreetype.so.2; when I try to install that, I get a
> conflict with libfreetype.so.6. SO, I apparently have
> a newer version of the library already installed, but
> Eterm doesn't recognize it, and there seems to be a
> problem with installing multiple versions of it. Any
> suggestions? I'm a little leery of just ripping out a
> library to replace it with an older version, to say
> the least.
> 
> William
> 
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